LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
Bell Gully may have led the New Zealand legal team, but one of the more interesting features of the Warkworth to Te Hana Public Private Partnership (PPP) is the involvement of global infrastructure specialist Ashurst Perkins Coie. For a 26‑kilometre stretch of Northland highway, that might sound like over‑lawyering. The concrete may be poured in
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The annual Doyle’s Guide rankings have landed, which can mean only one thing: LinkedIn is filling up with carefully worded declarations of collective excellence. First out of the blocks was Bankside Chambers, proudly announcing it had secured the highest number of ranked junior commercial litigators in New Zealand, with ten members recognised, alongside five ranked
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Deals with Sir Owen Glenn were “elaborate worldwide fraud” says Court The New Zealand Supreme Court has released its full reasons in Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley 2026 NZSC 97, explaining why it restored sweeping worldwide injunctions against former New Zealand businessman Ken Wikeley, now resident in Australia, and his associated entities. The Court had
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Latham & Wakins have secured General Counsel Samantha McGonigle to their London M&A and private equity team in a move that further strengthens the firm’s private equity practice. The firm’s media announcement is below – Latham & Watkins Adds Experienced Sponsor-Side M&A Partner in London, Further Strengthening Its Global Private Equity Platform Samantha McGonigle brings
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Article source: Bobby Jones Law Most litigation is a contest over facts that already exist and are not going anywhere. A contract says what it says. A slip-and-fall happened where it happened. The evidence sits still and waits for discovery. A commercial trucking case is different, and the difference is temporal. The evidence that decides
Former MinterEllisonRuddWatts star Silvana Schenone is on the move again, exiting local investment bank Jarden, who have had their ups and downs in recent years, to join fast‑rising Australian player Barrenjoey and taking her trans‑Tasman dealmaking clout with her. Barrenjoey, founded in 2020 and backed by Barclays and Magellan, has rapidly muscled into the top
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A capital raise that valued the World Cup’s commercial engine at $20 billion. A magic circle firm quietly hoovering up FIFA’s top litigators a fortnight earlier. One of those lasted a week. Guess which. The battle for football’s future was supposed to be fought in Manhattan conference rooms, but it was over almost before it
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Legal AI companies are making a blunt pitch for law firm associates to escape the all-nighters, the non-billable document slog, and the mind-numbing reviews and to help build the technology that makes those tedious tasks disappear. Dozens are taking the offer, leaving Big Law for a hybrid role called “legal engineer”a description that is part
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CHICAGO – Neal Gerber Eisenberg (NGE) is pleased to announce that Tal Izraeli has joined the firm as a partner in its Real Estate practice group. Tal brings more than two decades of experience advising developers, investors, lenders and borrowers on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing, joint ventures and distressed
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Article source: Family1st.io Tracking a spouse or partner is technically simple. A phone, a location-sharing app, a shared cloud account, a Bluetooth tag, or a GPS tracker will each do the job within minutes. Whether you may lawfully do it is a harder question, and agreement sits at the center of it without being the
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